MTS India the telecom joint venture company between of Sistema of Russia and Shyam Group(India) has signed an agreement with Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) to share the Tata's CDMA network for roaming services.This will be the first time that the two private CDMA service providers in India would allow roaming of their customers on each others network. The state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)... Read More
Telecom minister A Raja virtually ruled out the BSNL-MTNL merger saying it is difficult due to the lack of an identical factor between them.Identical factors are not there legally for BSNL-MTNL merger Raja said the minister who assumed charge on Monday however said the department was keen on the listing of BSNL and advised PSU management to start talks with the employees union for taking the company public. The union... Read More
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Telecom Minister A Raja, who has retained the portfolio he held in the previous UPA government,quoted in an interview that 3G auction will be held in two months and his top priority is to bring down the mobile tariffs to 10 paise a minute for local calls and 25 paise a minute for STD calls. In India at present local call rates vary from 40 paise to Re 1, and... Read More
Swan Telecom (Etisalat-Swan) has bought out Allianz Infratech, marking the first acquisition among the new companies who were given telecom licenses last year. Etisalat-Swan has also got a ‘no-objection certificate’ from Department of Telecom (DoT) for the deal, which is estimated to be worth a few hundred crores. Allianz had applied for telecom licenses on a pan-India level, but was given permission to launch services in only two circles —... Read More
India's leading mobile service provider and telecom major Airtel has announced that it has become the first service provider to cross 10-crore subscribe base across India.With 10-crore subscribers, Airtel has become the third largest single country mobile services operator in the world and sixth largest integrated telecom company globally. Bharti Enterprises Chairman and Group CEO Sunil Mittal has urged the government to announce a stable spectrum regime to boost growth... Read More
Unitech Wireless, the telecom venture of Unitech Ltd, India's second-largest real estate developer plans to launch its mobile services BY June-July 2009, with initial rollout in eight circles, four in south, two in Uttar Pradesh and one each in Bihar and Orissa. According to the company Unitech Wireless, with licences to operate in all 22 circles across India, is launching state-of-the-art telecommunication services to provide advanced wireless voice, data and... Read More
The Sahara group has picked up an 11.7% stake in Chennai-based telecom company S Tel, which has unified access services licenses.The government parlance for telecom licenses that allow wireline as well as wireless services in a service area has also given start-up spectrum for Sahara group in Bihar, Orissa, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, North East and Assam for Mobile Service. According to a report submitted by the telecom... Read More
GSM mobile service providers are opposing the 11-digit mobile numbering proposal on grounds that it would inconvenience the country’s 390 million subscribers. They are also seeking to end the exclusive two-digit operator code provided to three service providers. The Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) Technical Engineering Centre has recommended the new numbering plan, expecting the industry to run out of mobile numbers since the subscriber base has been expanding by 10... Read More
Loop Telecom will launch its GSM mobile services in the Tamil Nadu and Orissa circles by next week according to the senior executive of Loop Telecom they will be rolling out in three other circles in South India within 10-15 days of its launch in the first two circles Tamil Nadu & Orissa. As per company sources,they are not doing a large-scale commercial launch at this point to meet regulatory... Read More
Tata Teleservices said it will launch GSM service shortly, thereby following in the footsteps of Reliance Communications, which got into the arena few months back, the first company in the country to be operating both in the CDMA and GSM fields. According to the Tata Tele MD, the company is going to launch GSM operations in southern states soon. TTSL managing director Anil Sardana said the company has received spectrum... Read More
BSNL has put on hold its ambitious 3G network plans for Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar the problem being that Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has mandated a fine of Rs 50,000 for mobile service providers who choose to erect towers on buildings that do not have Building Use permission. This permission happens to be absent for 65 per cent buildings in the city. BSNL being a government set-up cannot pay a "fine"... Read More
